Have you ever wondered/wanted to set up a printing facilities well we have 3 rooms which we will now develop further into printing facilities.

On Tuesday the 18th at 4pm we will have a meeting to gather interested peopleand to take stock of equipment, draw up lists of what to do next and plan how we canmake usable facilities with the idea to share knowledge.

As of yet we do not have much of a time scale but hope that we can havesomething up and running in the next two months. This is very much at theplanning stage so if you have ever wanted to help in setting up a shared facilitythen now is your chance.

Where we are at is that we have a vacuum print table for paper based silk screenseveral screens and some basic exposure equipment.We can start by installing this and think about how we could build an exposure andwash out room.

As we have quite a bit of space we could also think to other types of printing wecould do. It would be nice to have some basic tables made of glass and a press formono printing/wood-lino cut. Also there appears to be interest in having an areafor textiles.

There will be budget for the set up but it will be small, we could look into gettingsmall grants. Hopefully we can run inductions and charge for use of the roomswhich could help to pay for the equipment. A sense a business plan coming on.